DOE -- IRA Energy Community Data Layers

An IRA Energy Community refers to areas designated under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as eligible for special incentives to promote clean energy development. These communities are typically regions impacted by the transition away from fossil fuels, such as those with closed coal mines or retired coal-fired power plants. The designation aims to boost local economies and job creation by attracting renewable energy projects like wind, solar, and battery storage, often offering enhanced tax credits to developers working in these areas.This source contains data for two types of potentially qualifying energy communities: 1) Census tracts and directly adjoining tracts that have had coal mine closures since 1999 or coal-fired electric generating unit retirements since 2009. These census tracts qualify as energy communities. 2) Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and non-metropolitan statistical areas (non-MSAs) that are energy communities for 2023 and 2024, along with their fossil fuel employment (FFE) status. Archived from https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/ira-energy-community-data-layers

This archive contains raw input data for the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) software developed by Catalyst Cooperative. It is organized into Frictionless Data Packages. For additional information about this data and PUDL, see the following resources:

• The PUDL Repository on GitHub
• PUDL Documentation
• Other Catalyst Cooperative data archives